darius comments on FAI FAQ draft: What is nanotechnology? - Less Wrong

0 Post author: lukeprog 22 November 2011 10:13PM

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Comment author: darius 23 November 2011 07:41:39AM 2 points [-]

Ah -- .1nm is also the C-H or C-C bond length, which comes to mind more naturally to me thinking about the scale of an organic molecule -- enough to make me wonder where the 0.24 was coming from. E.g. a (much bigger) sulfur atom can have bonds that long.